3/39 Apparently her ideal has been satisfied. It is fifty years old, bald-headed, and deaf, but it is very easy about money." "And where in the world," asked Newman, "did you pick up this valuable information ?" "In conversation. In conversation with a young woman engaged in the humble trade of glove-cleaner, who keeps a small shop in the Rue St.Roch. M.Nioche lives in the same house, up six pair of stairs, across the court, in and out of whose ill-swept doorway Miss Noemie has been flitting for the last five years. |